ports/68747: [patch] upgrade print/freetype2

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Jul 7 16:13:58 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 11:10, Koop Mast wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 22:02 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:57, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > > May I suggest that we hold off on this for a few days while we try to
> > > work on the regression testing for the meta-X-upgrade stuff?  It's just
> > > one more variable and there are plenty already :-)
> > 
> > Yeah, no problem.  I have to verify this myself.  Like I said, 2.1.8
> > would have earned me much flamage.
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> Font look a little diffrent with 2.1.9 than with the freetype 2.1.7 but
> I like them.
> But the problem is that de freetype people have changed some api's,
> somewhere in 2.1.8 and 2.1.9.

Do you have a screenshot example?  Specifically, what do the fonts in
Evo look like?

> 
> Gnome and Xorg build fine with the new freetype but mozilla doesn't,
> because it uses those changed api's. See: 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234035
> 
> With the patch in the bugreport mozilla build past the problem, but it
> breaks later on. From a quick look its the same api changes.

Did you rebuild fontconfig and libXft as well as all the GNOME bits?  I
guess this update is going to be fun.

Joe

> 
> Koop
> 
> > > 
> > > mcl
> 
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